Olive Oil & Sugar Face Scrub

Guess what? You can save yourself a whole lot of money, time and trouble when it comes to keeping your skin baby soft. This home beauty treatment is a little riff on our discovery that chefs sometimes use olive oil and salt to exfoliate their hands, and Jennifer swears by it.

You can use this anywhere on the body, and when we tell you it leaves you soft, we are so not joking. Your skin will glow and feel like silk — especially your face.

Be sure to scrub gently, and use granulated table sugar so the grains are small. If you are committed to raw sugar, just please be sure to grind it finely in a spice grinder or food processor, otherwise you’ll end up looking like a scratching post, and we cannot have that on our conscience.

You’ll also taste sweeter from head to toe, and that can never be bad.

Now, here’s the easiest recipe in the whole wide world:

Make a semi-thick paste with 1 tsp sugar to 2 Tbsp olive oil (approximate — make more or less depending on your exfoliation mission).

This post reminds me of something I have been thinking about of late… I am looking to gradually replace all of my health & beauty products with safer alternatives. However, many of the products I’ve found include oils, so I’m hesitant to use them as in the past make-up and face washes I’ve used led to break-outs.

My question is – are there certain oils that don’t generally cause break-outs? I’d also like to try homemade masks/facial scrubs like the one used here but unsure of whether the oils in it will lead to break-outs.

So sorry Amy, I didn’t see this. I find that if I use the olive oil too often (more than once a week), it can cause a breakout. This is a great thing for us to research, so I’ll request that the editors do that. Thank you!

I wouldn’t keep it for years. (I’m sure you’ll use it long before then anyway!) Since it is olive oil-based, and you can keep oil safely for a long period. Just keep it away from heat or direct sunlight shining through the bathroom window.

Olive oil does have the potential to go rancid, so you want to keep it in an airtight container and in a cool, dark place. Use your judgment — if it smells funny, chuck it. This is why I make it in small batches.

Add some lemon juice and this works wonders as a daily facial scrub for acne-prone. I have suffered from adult acne for many years, and this scrub has kept my skin clear (and soft! and reduced fine lines!)

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